Frank, is there a particular reason you want to use CSV? What tool do you plan to use to manipulate the data? The database is fairly relational.

I actually work for an open source database company so I'd really prefer to use my own product. Not to mention, I'm more familiar with it so the idea of doing something more ambitious appeals to me. For example, setting up a web page so you can run whatever the hell kind of query you feel like against the data.

I actually work for an open source database company so I'd really prefer to use my own product. Not to mention, I'm more familiar with it so the idea of doing something more ambitious appeals to me. For example, setting up a web page so you can run whatever the hell kind of query you feel like against the data.

It's not so much CSV, it's just a more portable data format.

- Frank

I'd just generate the sqlite database and then dump to SQL, unless your database is not a SQLish one. If you really want, though, you can modify the stats code to call your database's API instead. If it's demonstrably better, we'd probably accept patches.

I actually work for an open source database company so I'd really prefer to use my own product. Not to mention, I'm more familiar with it so the idea of doing something more ambitious appeals to me. For example, setting up a web page so you can run whatever the hell kind of query you feel like against the data.

We already have that - but perhaps you mean for people to generate queries without using SQL? That would be extremely cool, if you can come up with some sort of query interface. I would definitely put that on my site for people too.

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We already have that - but perhaps you mean for people to generate queries without using SQL? That would be extremely cool, if you can come up with some sort of query interface. I would definitely put that on my site for people too.

Yea, some kind of form, not raw SQL (which can take forever to run if you don't have the appropriate indexes for your query). I don't know when I have the time to do this, but it would be a fun project.

I'll probably just download/build/dump the stats on a linux machine at work, then export it to whever. Probably overall easier than getting it all to work on windows. Thanks for the suggestion, guys.

Note that you can get away with fewer if you don't need certain modules built:

libncursesw5-dev is for the -mgcu port
libglade2-dev is for the -mgtk port
libsdl* are for the -msdl port
libsqlite3-dev is for the -mstats module (needs 3GB RAM!)

You can remove any of these, though if you remove libglade2-dev you will need to install libx11-dev explicitly to build the -mx11 port, along with libice6-dev and libsm6-dev.

texlive-latex-extra is for the 3.3.x documentation, which has been replaced in 3.4-dev versions by RST docs, so this is only necessary if you are building 3.3.x

Also, please note that make distclean will undo the changes made by running autogen.sh and configure, so the correct sequence of commands is

./autogen.sh
./configure --with-my-options
make
make install

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"3.4 is much better than 3.1, 3.2 or 3.3. It still is easier than 3.0.9, but it is more convenient to play without being ridiculously easy, so it is my new favorite of the versions." - Timo Pietila